Rob Powell, the coach of the London Broncos, has said he remains undaunted by the club's decision to hold a mid-season review into his under-performing team.

The Broncos' chairman, David Hughes, who has poured millions of pounds into the club and agreed to spend up to the salary cap this year in an attempt to transform their fortunes, yesterday announced he would be leading an inquest into what has so far been a disastrous season.

Despite the signing of a host of experienced overseas players, the Broncos are joint bottom of the Stobart Super League after winning two of their 13 matches so far, and they crashed out of the Carnegie Challenge Cup in meek fashion last Sunday with a 50-14 defeat at Huddersfield.

Powell, at 31 the youngest coach in Super League by some distance, says he is as keen as his chairman to unearth the reasons for the poor performances of his team and is happy to play his part in the review. "It's just a reality of where we're at," he said. "Everybody at the club needs to be accountable. It's a results-based industry and we have won just two league games so naturally the chairman is not happy. There is nothing untoward or sinister about it," said the Sheffield-born Powell, who cut his coaching teeth at Newcastle University.

"It is what it is, questions have to be asked so that we can move forward. The players are clearly not performing to the potential we know they've got. I'm not passing the buck on to the players, it's my responsibility to best prepare the players to perform and we've got to get to the bottom of why they've under-performed. What I would say is there that is no problem with discipline. Things are not going as well as we would have liked but our behaviour as a group is intact. The guys are doing things really well and there are no problems or people falling off the boat or wanting to go elsewhere,"

The Broncos continue their nomadic existence on Sunday when they host Hull at Gillingham's Priestfield Stadium. The move is part of an attempt to gauge interest in the professional game in other areas of the south-east.

A fortnight ago they attracted a crowd of 2,844 for the game against the Bradford Bulls at Leyton Orient's Brisbane Road, and are hoping to top 4,000 in Kent where interest in rugby league has been generated by the rapid progress made by the successful local amateur club, the Medway Dragons.

"There is genuine interest in that area," said Powell. "There are some good things going on there. It's right to expose the game to different places. It's not technically in London, but it's an untapped area. Medway is probably the strongest junior club in the south of England and a lot better than some of the northern set-ups."